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On 12/08/2017 03:11, Brian Evans wrote: |
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> --changed-use (-U) |
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> Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have |
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> changed since installation. This option also implies the |
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> --selective option. Unlike --newuse, the --changed-use option |
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> does not trigger reinstallation when flags that the user has not |
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> enabled are added or removed. |
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> The option is the same as --newuse except it ignores functionality that |
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> you suggest to remove. You could certainly deprecate one option or the |
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> other if they became the same. But the core functionality of |
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> system-wide USE changes (by profile or user), needs to be scanned somehow. |
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+1 |
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There are use-cases for --changed-use / --newuse other than changed IUSE. |
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I find it useful to easily rebuild affected packages when changing USE |
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flags in make.conf. If the flags were removed, would we have a good |
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alternative? |
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Paweł |
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